![]() ![]() According to their latest press release, the organization’s mandate is to be “a bridge between authors and audiences of all backgrounds and experiences to engage as many people as possible with the great diversity of literature in the UK.” The RSL Roll Book is considered an honour because it contains signatures of Fellows elected over two centuries. ![]() in sociolinguistics, announced the news on Twitter with a photograph of herself signing her name in the RSL’s historic Roll Book with a pen that once belonged to the British novelist George Eliot who wrote Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Middlemarch (1871-72), among other books. The author, who was born in Chennai in 1984, and has a Ph.D. Earlier this week, she was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), a charity based in the United Kingdom that works for “the advancement of literature”. The accolades keep coming as her body of work expands. ![]() She is an anti-caste activist, poet, novelist, and translator with a long list of publications, fellowships and residencies to her credit. Meena Kandasamy has made a name for herself as a public figure wearing various hats. ![]()
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